Chills

Commercial and Education licenses can be activated in a manner similar to V1, without the need to contact a Serif server. But yes, talking directly to the Serif team (you could start with affinity@serif.com) would be best.

Purchase of a V2 license allows you to run V2, only. It does not allow you to run V1. For that you would need a V1 license, and V1 licenses are no longer offered for sale.
Unless you already own a V1 license, I'm not aware of any legitimate way for you to get one.
If you recently (within the last 14 days) purchased your V2 license directly from Serif you can contact affinityreturns@serif.com to request a refund.

I've just checked, and the Microsoft Sans Serif font is only available in one weight, so it doesn't have the bold option.

Use 72 or 96 for your on-screen images. Anything else is overkill for a screen, be it lapatop, desktop, or phone.

The DPI/PPI information stored in an image file has no relevance when the image is viewed in a browser, since the PPI of the device will always be used. So you should forget about display resolution and focus on pixel dimensions instead.
Use PNG format at maximum compression. That will take longer to save when you’re creating the image, but it will minimize the file size and the consequent loading time. JPEG files can be relatively small, but they’re always lossy (even at ‘100%’ quality).

This topic has been raised many times before. It seems that Serif have very good talent for creating the creative apps. Database creation is a very different area of expertise. I hope that within the wider company that a DAM system can be created. It should not be an LR lookalike.
An affinity DAM should manage all file types supported by the present Affinity applications, and use the present Affinity applications to open them. As it matures I would hope for semi auto identification of people in all affinity files. (Identify someone once and the system would find other possible matches, maybe as a background process)
I realise that this might be costly to implement and would be willing to pay for it.

Fixed that for you.  BTW when you say "Linux" which of the many 100's of Linux do you mean?

As with the V2 licence files, the V1 software can't read the V2 files.
So I have no idea why someone would think a new licensing system would work with older apps.
 

@HiPresto, The compatibility you recall reading about is probably about Version 2 being able to open version 1 files/documents.

Universal licences are usually backwards compatible to the point where they were introduced.  This is because before that point a different licencing system was used. You see this a lot in long running software. Various different licence dongles and/or software licence keys over the years.  These licencing systems only work on the versions of the software they were designed into.
In the case of  Affinity they changed to a new "Universal"  system with V2.  V1 used a different system so V2 keys won't work on V2 software.
Most (if not all) software companies won't sell you old versions of software. A lot of the reasons are to do with product liability and support.
 

Thanks for editing your post to point that out. The ‘Font type’ option under ‘View > Choose details’ for the Fonts folder is all you need: much better than messing around with the Windows registry!

To be fair to MS there the way they handle the fonts folder does make a lot of sense (at least in Win 11)  It can show a lot of customizable information
Once you work out how to do it, it is easy and straightforward to do when you know, but I missed any notification of the way it is handled. So I Was in the dark

@Dan C  and @jmwellborn many thanks for that.  It seems I only have TT, OTF and Raster fonts.  Well, on my PC's anyway.  I will have to dig into m y old Mac Pro but I don't run affinity on it.  That is where my Adobe CS6 hides! I only use the CS6 for converting files to imbl and, still, using Dreamweaver!
So I am not going to need to use a font converter. (I wish I hadn't said that!)  Though If I do find any PS Type 1 fonts I expect I will be able to find an OFT version. So the End of the World (at least this one)  has been averted.
 
As someone who does non-fiction stuff, both technical and a heritage magazine, it is fairly conservative stuff and I don't need a lot of typefaces. The main ones are OFT from Monotype. So I suspect any very old documents ( MS Word or even Word-Perfect) I have that might have Type 1 fonts I can convert to a different font on loading.
 

No, not checked them. So good point. I shall have to fish them out and have a look.  

But note that we started out with you talking about "several old CDs full of fonts", and that's where I commented they might be too old. Have you checked them, too?

@Dan C  and @jmwellborn many thanks for that.  It seems I only have TT, OTF and Raster fonts.  Well, on my PC's anyway.  I will have to dig into m y old Mac Pro but I don't run affinity on it.  That is where my Adobe CS6 hides! I only use the CS6 for converting files to imbl and, still, using Dreamweaver!
So I am not going to need to use a font converter. (I wish I hadn't said that!)  Though If I do find any PS Type 1 fonts I expect I will be able to find an OFT version. So the End of the World (at least this one)  has been averted.
 
As someone who does non-fiction stuff, both technical and a heritage magazine, it is fairly conservative stuff and I don't need a lot of typefaces. The main ones are OFT from Monotype. So I suspect any very old documents ( MS Word or even Word-Perfect) I have that might have Type 1 fonts I can convert to a different font on loading.
 

I think most of us will be out if Affinity and Canva do become one platform.

@Chills It isn't free, but FontXChange has been extremely reliable (and worth the cost) for me.  It is available for both MAC and Windows.  I had a great number of Postscript fonts among 857 total from years of yore which I successfully converted to OTF and have used ever since without a single glitch.  Also, their tech support is superb.  I hope this may help.

You can edit the categories shown for your installed fonts list by following the steps outlined here, which should allow you to determine which, if any, of your fonts are Type 1 :
https://support.graphisoft.com/hc/en-us/articles/18795237927185-Finding-Font-Types-on-your-Windows-Computer
Unfortunately as above I don't have any personal experience here, so I wouldn't want to recommend an application I haven't used.
The following stackoverflow thread has a few suggestions, but again I cannot speak for the reliability of any of these offerings:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9322635/how-can-i-convert-postscript-type-1-font-to-otf-or-ttf

Walt may be referring to "Type 1" fonts, which are slowly being discontinued across the majority of the industry - officially Adobe have discontinued support for them, and the PDF library that Affinity uses (PDFLib) has declared them deprecated within their latest release.
Further details on these fonts were discussed here:
I believe you may be able to convert old Type 1 fonts to OpenType in order to continue using them in any app going forward, but this is not something I've personally attempted and therefore YMMV

That is very true. Personally I wouldn't like to silent any voices.
In any case - can we please be all more positive on the whole "take over", "buy out", "joining family" - whatever we want to call it. I am glad to see fixes are coming, cant wait for whats to come. I will try to be more active on betas as for personal reasons I couldn't test a lot in recent times. I mean lets enjoy Affinity. Its a fantastic package. I dont see single reason why this should change in the nearest future. Unless for the better.

Its funny how you delete posts with obvious jokes where we could have some fun, but "doom and gloom", "the end is near!", "Canva bad" type of posts are welcomed.
Beating a completely dead horse, making countless, baseless (but always negative) predictions, complete fantasies - that is all good. Now its "Canva absorbes Affinity and becomes one"... Ow boy...
If I called that "prediction" by name I would break "community rules".
So I am NOT saying that.
But you know what I think about it, dont you? It starts with "S".
But I am not saying that, no sir!
I mean I wouldnt want anybody to be offended! No way.
And also - yes I am making fun from the childish tone of presentation - so? Deleting posts will not make it any better is it?

But you know what else you will not change with deleting posts?
Fact that I really like and support Affinity.  I was there day one when it showed up on PC, I spent long hours testing pen tool when it was crashing both apps, going back and forth with devs till it got fixed. I was there purchasing Publisher even if I dont need it at all - just to support Affinity. And re-purchasing Affinity 2 without thinking twice.
And I am here when Canva bought you - still not making you-know-what-kind of predictions (still didnt said any word that could offend anybody).
And I will be as long as Affinity will be as good software as it is. I am with you through thick and thin keeping the faith in the future of Affinity (while cracking a few jokes on the way - guilty as charged). Its not unconditional love - Affinity is just a tool. But really good one. You keep it this way and I am with you no matter how many silly posts you delete.
I am just baffled a little bit that you rather allow endless flood of posts by doomsayers who clearly do not believe in you then people who are with you no matter what, cracking some lighthearted jokes. An interesting choice for sure.

I was thinking if the Affinity brand (and or web site) is absorbed into Canva. I think that most Affinity users, contrary  @albertkinng  comment don't want to be closely associated with Canva, much less having to go to a Canva web site to get affinity , never mind having to use it on-line or on a subscription.

??? Affinity is a suite of 3 applications that run locally on user devices. Canva is a number of web-based services. How can they become one platform?

Thanks for that.  
Before anyone berates these "unprofessional clowns" throwing out buggy software causing the end of the world etc, there are tens of thousands of fonts out there.  (Monotype claim 270,000 fonts)  For my work, I only have 390 fonts installed. Someone else commented here that they have over 3,000 fonts installed. I have several CDs (if you can remember what they are!) with over 1,000 fonts on each.  I could install any combination at any time.  I have never heard of the font mentioned in the linked thread above, that caused the problem, but for the user in question it is his main font. 
You can't test all the fonts out there.  Especially when there are multiple versions of a font from different suppliers, not all fonts are equal. The implementations can be very different.